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Russell Crowe played the role of Roger Ailes, the former exec at Fox News, in The Loudest Voice, which aired last year, and now we’re learning how he prepared for the role.

“I remember when you were preparing for Roger Ailes, you were compiling all the information about him. How did you do that?,” Russell was asked by Nicole Kidman in a conversation with Variety.

He responded, “Well, that’s a funny thing. Because you tend to take advantage of situations that come up. You were in New York for Hugh [Jackman]’s birthday party, right?”

After Nicole responded that she was there, Russell added, “And Ivanka [Trump] came in. So that gave me the opportunity to have a very long conversation with Ivanka’s husband [Jared Kushner]. And he had a very direct relationship with Roger over their presidential campaign. Phone calls every Sunday. So it gave me that contemporary insight that the book could not give me.”

Nicole said, “I had no idea you met [Jared Kushner] at that party,” and Russell added, “Nobody else was talking to him.”

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Unhinged is on the move again…

Solstice Studios announced this afternoon that the Russell Crowe starring movie will be moving back to a late July release amid fears that the pandemic will have another spike.

The film was set to be the first movie back in theaters as they prepare to reopen, however, as fears loom of the coronavirus having another spike, the studio decided to delay the premiere just a few more weeks.

Here’s the official Unhinged summary: After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage.

In a recent interview, Russell opened up about Unhinged being the first major movie back in theaters.

“Outside of seeing family and friends that people hadn’t seen, the No. 1 thing they wanted to do was go to the cinema. The type of movie that they wanted to see.. I would have assumed comedy, I would have assumed love story, but the top genre on the list was thriller,” he shared.

Russell added, “In a way I think it’s a little bit of perverse human self-preservation. We want to go back to that place we’re familiar with, in that safe room where all the crazy stuff just happens on the screen. Not actually in our lives.”

Unhinged will be in theaters on July 31.

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Russell Crowe was nervous to take on his iconic role in Gladiator – because it was “so bad” at first.

The 56-year-old actor, who starred in the 2000 Academy Award-winning film, spoke to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday (June 25) about the experience.

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“Gladiator was a unique experience because the script that they had was so bad,” he revealed.

“The producer didn’t know I’d actually already been able to get a copy, but the thing he said was, ‘I don’t want to send you the document we have because you won’t respond to it.’”

“‘But I want to encourage you to have a meeting with Ridley Scott and here’s the thing that I want you to think about: it’s 180 AD, you’re a roman general and you’re being directed by Ridley Scott. Just think about that,’” he continued.

He went on to talk about the “unbelievable” legacy of the movie.

“Twenty years later people still talk about. That doesn’t happen with every movie.”

He recently shared a touching story about a cat he rescued for his mom.

Watch Russell Crowe discuss his experience…

Russell Crowe shared a touching story about a cat he once rescued and gave to his mom for companionship.

“At one . Zen,” the 56-year-old Gladiator actor started off his story. “Underneath the swirl of sounds I heard something out of place. Was that a meow? I started to look around me . I heard it again. I took a few steps of the track into the rain forest. Thick with ferns and vines . One more step and then I saw it. A kitten…”

Russell went on, forming the story like an epic.

“I stopped at a good vantage point to look back down the track, have a sip of water , and steel myself for the next section which I knew was the harshest.
Looking back down the track and out through the trees to the valley. Sweat pouring out of me. Bellbirds and cockatoos calling.”

“A tale in a few tweets. Goes better with tea,” he told his followers as he continued his story. “In early 2003 my mum started agitating for a cat. We have a place in the bush, we get visited by all manner of native birds. I was against the idea. Domestic cats being the notorious enemy of bird life.”

Russell goes on, explaining that he found the kitten abandoned on a lone dirt road devoid of any vehicles around. He hints that someone had discarded the kitten and drove away.

“We flew down the hill in a tight group and arrived back at my farm together where I presented my mother with this tiny baby kitten. She was floored. So happy,” he adds of his mother’s reaction.

She had named the cat Cinders, an ode to his own role in Cinderella Man.

“The point of the story… that kitten, called Cinders ( Cinderella Man ) died yesterday. She had never grown to be fully trusting of humans, but, she loved my mum and my mum loved her,” Russell wrote. “Fairly aggressive with dogs and others, but she never scratched me. I took that as gratitude.”

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Russell Crowe has landed a new movie role!

The 56-year-old Oscar winner will be starring as a mobster in the upcoming thriller American Son, Variety reports.

Andrew “Rapman” Onwubolu will be directing the film from a screenplay by Dennis Lehane.

Here’s the synopsis: “American Son centers around a man, who after falling under the control of a ruthless mobster (Crowe) while in prison, builds a multiracial crime syndicate, takes down his mentor, and earns a place for his crew alongside the Italian and Russian mafias.”

American Son is based on the acclaimed French film A Prophet, which followed an Arab man who is sent to a French prison, where he becomes a mafia leader.

If you missed it, it was recently announced that Russell‘s upcoming movie Unhinged is set to be the first movie released in theaters amid the ongoing pandemic. Find out its release date here.

Russell Crowe‘s thriller Unhinged is planning to release in theaters on July 1, despite the fact that some regions may not have movie theaters open at that point due to different shelter-in-place restrictions across the country.

Texas theaters are currently open, but markets like New York City and Los Angeles remain unclear. The press release states that the film will be released “in accordance with state public health department safety guidelines.”

The film is a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we’ve all experienced- road rage – to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. Soon, Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of a man who decides to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged.

“If there are places where density is a factor and theaters aren’t open, that’s okay,” producer Mark Gill said about the decision to open the film (via Variety). “It might be that theaters are closed in New York City or Chicago or San Francisco, but less populated cities and suburbs will be open and we expect there to be a lot of pent-up demand.”

Christopher Nolan‘s Tenet is the next film slated after Unhinged, and is currently scheduled for July 17.

Joaquin Phoenix heads back to his car after an errand in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon (May 5).

The 45-year-old recent Oscar winner wore a mask to comply with CDC guidelines about coronavirus, and also wore some socks that had pigs on them. Check them out in the gallery now!

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In a recent interview with Variety to celebrate Gladiator‘s 20th anniversary, Russell Crowe opened up about his friendship with Joaquin that started when they worked on the movie together.

“There were a lot of people in that strange journalistic habit who wanted to just poke that fire and kept asking Joaquin about his brother and then about his relationship with me because we have that in the film,” Russell shared with the site, recalling the press tour that took place.

He added that “he just said something along the lines of, ‘Look, Russell treated me like a brother’ and it just hit me in a really heavy way.”

“The last time we got together we had just bumped into each other in a corridor and it was then followed by six or seven hours of just throwing away whatever it was we were supposed to do that day and just being in each other’s company,” Russell added.